I'm looking for a solid recipe database with thousands of recipes I can add to my database in MasterCook. Something that covers recipes of all categories. I want to have a great selection of recipes for any occasion already in MasterCook so I can reference and edit to my needs so I'm not googling recipes and never finding them again. I have a nice collection of cookbooks I reference, but I don't have the time to import them into MasterCook to scale/price/edit all of them. This will be a foundation for my own personal database I will add to and work off of. I'm having trouble finding something that isn't a web based site that I would have to manually import every recipe into Mastercook. Thanks in advance for the help.

Ok maybe I'm being too picky, I'm just looking for additional cookbooks/recipes to add to MasterCook. Things with basic recipes across a broad range of categories. Things like a collection of traditional american comfort, or a collection of classic french or 50 uses for ground beef. It's taking forever to import my personal collection of recipes I have on paper that are pretty standard as they come.

Honestly, I have the same problem, so I just decided to make my own database that I'm working on. Whenever I'm feeling uninspired I just recycle old specials, but nobody wants to see the same special day after day. I just started making this a few days ago, but my plan is to fill it up with everything I learn so I have a database and I know exactly where everything, what's in it and how to find it. I feel more comfortable with recipes I've used and know well, anyway.

Yes, I downloaded almost all of those and realized it was the same recipes that came installed with MasterCook. Tried a lot of googlin' but a lot of the sites were closed or not relevant.

I guess I could hire someone to do a lot of data entry, but I have so many I would like to be transferred from paper to computer.

I was hoping to just find something similar to the collection of standard recipes I have in my books so I can easily search, scale, print, cost etc. I also have a royal army recipe manual in PDF I'd like to import to Mastercook with like 800 recipes. It covers a lot of stuff and would take forever to import using the import assistant.

You can copy and paste any recipe from the web into Master Chef can't you? Should be no need to type each one.

I don't have to type each one but I have to select recipe to copy and paste then select each title, ingredients, instructions etc. there is an auto fill button, but I can never use it when I copy a recipe.

Why not just save the web page to a folder. Say it is a beef sandwich, make a folder named recipes and a sub folder sandwiches (could even do another sub folder for beef or what ever) and let windows do the work for you. Or you could save it to a text file the same way by copy and pasting it to word or something like that. For something you might not use, sounds like a lot of work for nothing putting it in master cook or anyplace else as long as you have a computer. It will always be on the net unless the site closes.